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LBJ National Security Country Files - Poland

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Folder Links and descriptions 

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Folder 5 (76 documents) - July 1966 - Sept. 1968

Telegrams, memos, and reports from the American embassy in Warsaw to the State Department on Polish mediation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China related to American interests in Vietnam.


Folder 6  (64 documents) - Nov. 1963 - Sept. 1966

Documents on the day-to-day affairs of the American embassy in Warsaw, events in Poland which might interest the State Department as well as efforts to foster a cooperative relationship with the Polish government. Memos on negotiations with Chinese representatives over the future of Vietnam.


Folder 7 (90 documents) - Dec. 1963 - Sept. 1966

Documents on the challenges of fostering cooperation with the Polish government, with some documents on internal Polish politics. Notable themes and topics include: postmaster general John Gronouski’s invitation and trip to Poland; development of trade with Poland; Polish internal politics; concern for Polish-American views and recognition of Poland’s postwar borders; meeting with ambassador to Poland Cabot, discovery of listening devices in American Warsaw embassy; American attaches discovered spying on Soviet aircraft in Poland; Gronouski sworn in as new ambassador to Poland; special report on Church-State relations in Poland.


Folder 8 (43 documents) - Jan. 1964 - Jan. 1966

Correspondence between the State Department and the American Embassy in Warsaw. Correspondence between US Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski and Polish Ambassador to the US, Edward Drozniak, on the escalating crisis in Vietnam and Laos. A memorandum detailing a meeting between Polish and US representatives regarding the instability of the German partition between East and West. Memoranda regarding the improvement of East-West relations through economic policy.

 

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Background Image: Pre-fab, socialist era apartment buildings in PoznaÅ„, Poland. 

 https://www.zupagrafika.com/post/prefab-panel-blocks-mass-housing-in-the-soviet-bloc

About This Site

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin Libraries has been working on this digitization project since 2014. Our curated digitized collection of Cold War archives includes the Country Files for Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Albania from the National Security Files (NSF) collection from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library's archival collections. We will continue adding new content, including the country files for Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR, which are coming soon. Contributors to the creation of this website and the digitized collection include Dr. Mary Neuburger (director of the project), Ian Goodale, Dr. Tetiana Klynina, Alayna Parlevleit, Nick Pierce, Eliza Fisher, Sarth Khare, Nilcole Marino, Mary Rader, Esmeralda Moscatelli and students from the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program at UT Austin. Images used on the site are sourced from the LBJ Presidential Library's online photo archive, Wikimedia Commons, and other sources as noted. The background collages on the main page and the country pages are mostly from the English-language Communist-era glossy magazines produced in the region, now housed in the UT Libraries and Dr. Neuburger's private collection.

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Home page image: Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin informs President Lyndon B. Johnson of the Soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to crush the Prague Spring reformist movement. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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